Law and neuroscience / current legal issues 2010 / edited by Michael Freeman.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

1st edition

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Law -- Psychological aspects.

Neurosciences.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Introduction : law and the brain

What neuroscience can (and cannot) tell us about criminal responsibility

Mens rea, logic, and the brain

Indeterminism and control : an approach to the problem of luck

Neuroscience and criminal responsibility : proving can't help himself as a narrow bar to criminal liability

Madness, badness, and neuroimaging-based responsibility assessments

Brain images as evidence in the criminal law

The neural correlates of third-party punishment

Law, neuroscience, and criminal culpability

How (some) criminals are made

Neuroscience and penal law : ineffectiveness of the penal systems and flawed perception of the under-evaluation of behaviour constituting crime. The particular case of crimes regarding intangible goods

Neuroscience and emotional harm in tort law : rethinking the American approach to free-standing emotional distress claims

Neuroscience and ideology : why science can never supply a complete answer for adolescent immaturity

Adolescent brain science and juvenile justice

The neuroscience of cruelty as brain damage : legal framings of capacity and ethical issues in the neurorehabilitation of motor neurone disease and and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

The carmentis machine : legal and ethical issues in the use of neuroimaging to guide treatment withdrawl in newborn infants

The right to silence protects mental control

Minds apart : severe brain injury, citizenship, and civil rights

Reciprocity and neuroscience in public health law

Pathways to persuasion : how neuroscience can inform the study and practice of law

The juridical role of emotions in the decisional process of popular juries

Possible legal implications of neural mechanisms underlying ethical behaviour

What Hobbes left out : the neuroscience of compassion and its implications for a new common-wealth

Neuroscience and the free exercise of religion

Steps toward a constructivist and coherentist theory of judicial reasoning in civil law tradition

Evolutionary jurisprudence : the end of the naturalistic fallacy and the beginning of natural reform?

The history of scientific and clinical images in mid-to-late nineteenth-century American legal culture : implications for contemporary law and neuroscience

Lost in translation? : an essay on law and neuroscience.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Oxford scholarship online. Law collection.

9780199599844

xiii, 568 p. : ill. ; 24 cm